MikeTalbot wrote:I was working a cover band with two singers down in central FL - one got sick, the other 'figured' we wouldn't go on without the first one so neither one of those dipshits bothered to show.
My brother and I were stone broke and running a bar tab at the club - wondering why we had no singers. The drummer was in poor shape too. We had to go on stage.
So what was my first song? Sweet Jane, then Doo Doo Doo Heartbreaker (my soundman played trombone on that) and then I ran out of things I knew the lyrics to. So I began a talking blues thing for a long time and people seemed to like it. It helped that my brother plays lead guitar like a mad man.
Couldn't do our originals since I had never bothered to learn to sing them! I just wrote them and handed them over to the singers.
About half way through the gig I was sweating bullets but the crowd was juiced enough that it was working. Barely...then a chick singer I knew showed up and I put her on stage immediately and she baled us out. We'd worked together before which helped.
The owner knew we had winged it but everyone was smilin' at the end of the night so he paid us off. After subtracting the bar tab...
So that was my first attempt at singing. I'll post my next attempt shortly, God willing.
Talbot
It always helps to wait until a crowd has knocked back about 3-4 beers. Seems after that they are less picky about how the artists step out of the boxes
